Is Mexico Safe?

[WeazyBuddha]

Originally Posted by tricepilot

Weazy I have 2 of your chairs at my casa from my BBQ fest in July

I was when I got home but blew it off. First thing I thought when I saw your message was to have RGV ADV inmates pile into my pickup and go on a chair retrieval / Harmon's BBQ gathering road trip but then realized I could buy a bunch of chairs for the cost of gas. I was just up in Austin last weekend, I'll alert you if I'm in the area but feel free to use them as needed, maybe I'll end up retrieving them at next year's BBQ fest if there is one.

[tricepilot]

Originally Posted by WeazyBuddha

maybe I'll end up retrieving them at next year's BBQ fest if there is one.

First Saturday after the 4th of July, Casa Tricepilot

Standard. Operating. Procedure.










The moons were aligned this year. The 'Q was to die for.

[SchizzMan]

Originally Posted by tricepilot

Weazy I have 2 of your chairs at my casa from my BBQ fest in July

And one of mine.

[tricepilot]

Originally Posted by SchizzMan

And one of mine.

Is yours the porcelain one with the flush handle?

[tricepilot]

PS, to all of you Mexico riders who have been to Casa Tricepilot, Nellie passed away last Sunday at 4:21 am.

She loved all you guys who visited here.

[WeazyBuddha]

Oh no! She was a sweetie. My condolences.

[tricepilot]

Nellie greeted everyone stopping here from their grand adventures in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

Being in San Antonio, Tricewife and I have hosted a ton of traveling riders. Nellie would be the first to congratulate someone pulling into the garage.



The tradition continues - and all riders are welcome here - riding north or south.

Jackson, a Labradoodle, is the new host Pics of Jack, soon. Jacksoon. I crack me up.

[tricepilot]

Ok, moving on, back to the topic at hand.

[SchizzMan]

Originally Posted by tricepilot

PS, to all of you Mexico riders who have been to Casa Tricepilot, Nellie passed away last Sunday at 4:21 am.

She loved all you guys who visited here.

So sorry.

What a sweetie!


She came out to the cul-de-sac that Saturday morning of the BBQ event and checked out the "fatties". Schickmeister had left his on his chair for a moment. Nellie gave it a sniff then looked around at the rest of us for any indication of approval. Man, she really enjoyed that fattie!

[SR]

Originally Posted by Skowinski

Gods Middle Finger was an interesting book. I often start in on a book and lose interest somewhere along the way. But, I read that one to the end. Only dissapointing thing to me was, he knew he was going into an area known for it's dangers, and he knew this quite clearly. When he apparently almost got himself killed, he left with what seemed from the book to be a bad impression of Mexico. Or, that's the way I read the end of the story.

My Brother In Law is from San Miguel de Las Cruces where this guy was supposedly almost killed. I like to tell the guys from there that a Gringo wrote a book where he almost got killed by a couple of crazy cabrones from there. They don't believe it. I don't either.

To me the ending of that book is at best a couple of drunk guys f-ing with a stiff Englishmen, then the story was extremely embellished, but more likely it is complete BS fiction, designed to be turned into a great horror movie ending.

The motivations are not right. Why would a couple of gainfully employed construction workers try to kill a potential tourist at the resort they were building? Their boss who is paying them would have a clear interest in promoting tourism, not allowing tourists to be killed on his property. It doesn't add up?

I can only guess, but I think the place based the ending on are some tourist cabins called Vencedores. The were built in the last few years.
http://www.durangocrece.com/anunciantes.php?idA=MTU1

I have never been to the cabins but have been meaning to go up there. San Miguel de las Cruces is way up in the pine forest and there is a native species of trout there that is unique only to that area. It would be fun to go up there and try to catch one. If Richard had known more about the Sierra he would have chosen a more dangerous and more likely place to almost get killed than some tourist cabins in San Miguel de las Cruces!

[tricepilot]

Originally Posted by SR

To me the ending of that book is at best a couple of drunk guys f-ing with a stiff Englishmen, then the story was extremely embellished, but more likely it is complete BS fiction, designed to be turned into a great horror movie ending.

I think you're spot on about God's Middle Finger.

In a related story, this is what Micah True, a.k.a. Caballo Blanco (central character in Born to Run), said of that book:

Q. What's your take on the book?

"It's a really good read. It's inspiring. It was waiting for me when I got back to Boulder last May, and when I read the first 40 pages, I thought, 'What the #*%&!' He drew you in with a character that was supposed to be me. He made me out to be some sort of bad-ass, but it's far from the truth. But as the book went on, it captured all of us well. And it did take some liberties with all of our personal lives, and some of it was very controversial and it made a lot of people mad. It hasn't been translated to Spanish yet, and that's probably a good thing. A lot of people have read the book and have become inspired to come run with us, and that's great."

The upshot is, SR's take on God's Middle Finger and Micah True's account of the way he is characterized in Born to Run points to the fact that there's a lot of motivation, apparently, to sensationalize what's going on in Mexico.

[SchizzMan]

Originally Posted by tricepilot

I think you're spot on about God's Middle Finger.

In a related story, this is what Micah True, a.k.a. Caballo Blanco (central character in Born to Run), said of that book:

Q. What's your take on the book?

"It's a really good read. It's inspiring. It was waiting for me when I got back to Boulder last May, and when I read the first 40 pages, I thought, 'What the #*%&!' He drew you in with a character that was supposed to be me. He made me out to be some sort of bad-ass, but it's far from the truth. But as the book went on, it captured all of us well. And it did take some liberties with all of our personal lives, and some of it was very controversial and it made a lot of people mad. It hasn't been translated to Spanish yet, and that's probably a good thing. A lot of people have read the book and have become inspired to come run with us, and that's great."

The upshot is, SR's take on God's Middle Finger and Micah True's account of the way he is characterized in Born to Run points to the fact that there's a lot of motivation, apparently, to sensationalize what's going on in Mexico.

What other country has been as subject to sensationalism over as many years as Mexico has?

[SR]

Originally Posted by tricepilot

I think you're spot on about God's Middle Finger.

In a related story, this is what Micah True, a.k.a. Caballo Blanco (central character in Born to Run), said of that book:

Q. What's your take on the book?

"It's a really good read. It's inspiring. It was waiting for me when I got back to Boulder last May, and when I read the first 40 pages, I thought, 'What the #*%&!' He drew you in with a character that was supposed to be me. He made me out to be some sort of bad-ass, but it's far from the truth. But as the book went on, it captured all of us well. And it did take some liberties with all of our personal lives, and some of it was very controversial and it made a lot of people mad. It hasn't been translated to Spanish yet, and that's probably a good thing. A lot of people have read the book and have become inspired to come run with us, and that's great."

The upshot is, SR's take on God's Middle Finger and Micah True's account of the way he is characterized in Born to Run points to the fact that there's a lot of motivation, apparently, to sensationalize what's going on in Mexico.

Trici, if your comment is directed at me, I cant comment, I haven't read that book. I will put it on my list.

Maybe I will run into Caballo Blanco next month when I'm in Boulder visiting my folks. I was raised there. Please, save the liberal jokes. I have been taking them all my life!

My condolences about Nellie.

[mark883]

Mexico is so dangerous, that their promotional posters for events like bike tours, don't show people on bikes, just skeletons.

This was sent to me from an insurance company that covers gringos traveling to Mexico. Based on the news, can you think of anything crazier that insuring anyone or anything in Mexico?

Tricepilot, sorry about the skeleton dog in the pic. Regrets sent from a guy that loves his psycho spazz ADHD cocker spaniel.

[SchizzMan]

Originally Posted by SR

Trici, if your question is directed at me I cant comment, I haven't read that book. I will put it on my list.

Maybe I will run into Caballo Blanco next month when I'm in Boulder visiting my folks. I was raised there. Please, save the liberal jokes. I have been taking them all my life!

I remember breakfast at Sanborn's in Durango with our Canadian friend. You're definitely NOT a liberal. Never heard from him again.

Also haven't read the book but in an interview Grant describes being chased through the woods by a coupla guys with guns. Seem to recall a movie like that.